reprove

present singular third person reproves · participle present reproving · participle past reproved · past reproved

1. intransitiveTo express disapproval.First known use 14th c.

   Synonyms: admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, clobber, cannonade, slash

2. transitiveTo criticise, rebuke, or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.First known use 14th c.

   Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:8

3. transitiveTo deny or reject (as a feeling, behaviour, action, etc.).First known use 14th c.

   She ached to be with Affad again – and to reprove the feeling she frowned and bit her lip.

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 856

present singular third person reproves · participle present reproving · past reproved · participle past reproved · participle past rare reproven · alternative re-prove

1. transitiveTo prove again.

   Often, previously-known results will be streamlined, reworded, or reproven to make them directly relevant to the results of this paper.

   2015, Matthew Zawodniak, “A Moduli Space for Rational Homotopy Types with the Same Homotopy Lie Algebra”, in arXiv

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   As we've just learned, as long as we live in the manifest realm, a hero's journey is never over. We are constantly having to reprove ourselves.

   2012, Gary Stamper, Awakening the New Masculine: The Path of the Integral Warrior